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want to make life easy for bottom-feeder spam artists. If you are a
developer and want to contact the person who originally reported the
problem, or want to see the e-mail message which prompted me to
include a bug/issue in this list,
contact me. I keep an mail archive
which will have that information assuming it was an item added since I took
over the list from Alan.

USB: printer open should not fail on printer not ready;
add GETSTATUS ioctl (2.4.0-test10)

2. Capable Of Corrupting Your FS/data

Use PCI DMA by default in IDE is unsafe (must not do so on via VPx, x < 3) (Vojtech Pavlik --- requires chipset tuning to be enabled according to Andre Hedrick --- we need to turn this on by default, if it is safe -- TYT)

Loop device can still hang (William Stearns has script that will hang 2.4.0-test7, Peter Enderborg has a short sequence that will hang 2.4.0test9)

Check all devices use resources properly (Everyone now has to use request_region and check the return since we no longer
single thread driver inits in all module cases. Also memory regions are now
requestable and a lot of old drivers dont know this yet. -- Alan Cox.
Most common drivers are now done, as of pre10)

USB: acm (modem) driver is slow compared to Windows drivers for same modems
(maybe an HCD problem, not acm driver, or acm should use bulk queueing)

Fix all remaining PCI code to use pci_enable_device (mostly done, final cleanup )

USB: add devfs support to drivers that don't have it

USB: add DocBook info to main USB driver interfaces (usb.c)

USB: Printer stalls at random places when printing large graphics.
When printing big pictures (10..50 meg) the printer stalls halfway. The
point where it stalls is random but the fact that it stalls is
reproducable. Printing the same pictures using the parallel interface
is ok. Printing text is ok anyway.
(Frank van Maarseveen)

Floppy driver broken by VFS changes. Other drivers may be too
(Stuff gets called after _close now - unload race possibly too; should be fixed in test6)

OSS module remove races (fixed by Christoph Hellwig)

Merge the 2.2 ServeRAID driver into 2.4 (Christoph Hellwig)

AHA27xx is broken (maybe 28xx too) (reported fixed by Doug Ledford)

Merge the network fixes (DaveM)

Finish 64bit vfs merges (lockf64 and friends missing -- willy?) (Andreas Jaeger reports that lockf64 has been added for Intel and Alpha; other architectures may not be done, but if not, they won't build :-)

Can't compile CONFIG_IBMTR and CONFIG_PCMCIA_IBMTR in kernel at once; kernel link failes (rasmus; fixed in a kludgy way by not allowing the combination by arjan)

TLAN nic appears to be adding a timer twice (2.4.0test8pre6,
Arjan ve de Ven) (Fixed, but patch not sent to Linus yet -- Torben
Mathiasen)

Loading the qlogicfc driver in 2.4.0-test8 causes the kernel to loop forver reporting SCSI disks that aren't present (Paul Hubbard, Torben Mathiasen has a potential patch, sent to Linus, need to very with Paul)

Fix the minixfs races (Al Viro)

SIT tunneling (ipv6 in ipv4) is broken (Gerhard Mack; Davem has a fix) (fixed in test10-pre2)

USB: printer driver aborts on out-of-paper or off-line conditions
instead of retrying until the condition is fixed

USB: usb-uhci SMP spinlock/bad pointer crash

USB: cpia camera driver with OHCI HCD locks up or fails

USB: pegasus (ethernet) driver crashes often

USB: Fix differences in UHCI and OHCI HCD behaviors/semantics:

Only uhci.c does EARLY_COMPLETE (drop EARLY_COMPLETE ?)

USB: Fix the OOPS in usb-storage from the error-recovery handler. {CRITICAL} (reported by Matthew Dharm, fixed as of test9)

USB: booting with USB compiled into kernel causes a lot of syslog entries
as the root hubs are probed by all drivers (this is especially
obnoxious as the usb-serial drivers start up) (Fixed in test9, according to Greg KH)

Spin doing ioctls on a down netdeice as it unloads == BOOM (prumpf, Alan Cox) Possible other net driver SMP issues (andi kleen) Not really a concern, but there might be some issues in specific drivers.

Probably Hardware Bugs

Data corruption on IDE disks (Generic PCI DMA and SiS support Steven Walter) (sounds like PCChips #M599LMR motherboard doesn't disable UDMA when a non-UDMA cable is used. If you disable UDMA in the BIOS, then there is no problem. hardware bug?)

AHA29xx driver appears to stomp other cards (may be BIOS; probably motherboard has assigned to small of a range to a card, so that it's overlapping with some other card -- Doug Ledford)

USB hangs on APM suspend on some machines (fixed more most; Alan has one still that fails but the BIOS has 'issues')

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